Manual Therapy, Assessment and Management

Description

Further management strategies including clinimetry, cranio-cervical posture and 'psychological' management of chronic facial pain are described and discussed in relation to their integration in daily practice. Difficult clinical problems such as cervical headache, chronic ear pain in children, KISS syndrome, facial paralysis, tinnitus, craniomandibular dysfunction amongst others are described and discussed. A clinical reasoning approach to problem solving is emphasized throughout.

This book is recommended for those interested in manual assessment and management of the craniofacial region including clinicians, physiotherapists, dentists, orthodontics, ENT-specialists, neurologists, maxillofacial surgeons, chiropractors and osteopaths.

Foreword by Professor Mariano Racobado, Santiago, Chile.

Contributors:

HAJ Oudhof: Skull Growth in relation to mechanical stimulationDr H Biedermann: Features of cranial tissue as a basis for clinical pattern recognition on managementDr med H Biederman: Primary and secondary cranial asymmetry in Kiss-childrenR Spermon-Marijne: Manual Therapy of the craniofacial region as therapeuticDr J R Spermon: approach in children with long term ear diseaseP Westerhuis: Cervicogenic headache: a clinician's perspective and Cervicogenic Headache, physical examination and managementDavid Butler: Experience of pain and the craniofacial regionD Fitzgerald and Lynn Bryden: The influence of posture and alteration of function upon the cranio-cervical and craniofacial regionM Jones: Clinical reasoning. A basis for examination and treatment in the cranial regionF Winters: Pain management by patients with chronic craniofacial painG Aufdemkampe: The relevance of clinimetrie by patients with cranial facial pain

Table of Contents

Skull growth in relation to mechanical stimulation; Features of cranial tissue as a basis for clinical pattern recognition, examination and treatment; Primary and secondary cranial asymmetry in KISS children; Manual therapy movements of the craniofacial region as a therapeutic approach to children with long-term ear disease; Cervicogenic headache: a clinician's perspective; Cervicogenic headache: physical examination and management; Neurodynamics of cranial nervous tissue (cranioneurodynamics); Experience of pain and the craniofacial region; The influence of posture and alteration of function upon the craniocervical and craniofacial regions; Clinical reasoning - a basis for examination and treatment in the cranial region; Pain management in patients with chronic craniofacial pain; Clinimetrics for the clinician - the use of some indexes applicable in the craniocervical and craniofacial regions